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Taji's Mahal

Pizza Party at the Good Company

For this week's Mahal, I headed over to the Good Company in the Lower East Side of Manhattan for a pizza party in celebration of Henry Gunderson's artwork. The Good Company opened six months ago. It was an idea birthed during an acid trip and its main goal is to keep up some good, if not traditional, artist collaborations. Full story

Italica

The VICE Guide to the Venice Biennale

Every two years, Venice hosts the most important contemporary art exhibition in the world. Over a period of six months, the Biennale welcomes over 375,000 visitors and raises millions of Euros. We went to Venice a few months before the official opening to meet artists, curators, Full story

The Creators Project

Start Your Wet, Hot Summer at MoMA's Rain Room

Initially installed at the Barbican in London, Rain Room became the most successful piece in the museum's history, offering visitors the chance to stand in the middle of a rainstorm without getting wet. The crowd-pleasing exhibition is now on view in New York at MoMA as pa… Full story

The Art of Taboo: Nobuyuki Oura

Artists have always used taboo and controversy to pose questions about society. In the first episode of "The Art of Taboo" we focus on Oura Nobuyuki, who explains the meaning behind his highly controversial portraits of Japan's Showa emperor, titled "Holding Perspective." Full story

Filthy Lucre

Artists too have their myths. The lies told to artists mirror the lies told to women. Be good enough, be pretty enough, and that guy or gallery will sweep you off your feet, to the picket-fenced land of generous collectors and two and a half kids. But, make the first move, seize Full story

How Many Trees Does It Take to Fill a Mexican Art Space With Printed Websites?

Kenneth Goldsmith, the Museum of Modern Art's poet laureate, wants to print out the entire internet and put it on display in Mexico City's LABOR space. How many trees will have to die for this art? By my count, 56,000. Full story

The Creators Project

Takashi Murakami on Nuclear Monsters and Buddhist Damnation

Takashi Murakami's art has always sat at the crossroads of Japanese tradition and contemporary culture. Often working in sculpture and painting, he recently ventured into the world of cinema with 'Jellyfish Eyes,' a monster movie set in a post-Fukushima world. Full story

Tao Lin's iPhone Photos of Taipei

Taipei Public Art

Over the past few weeks, in celebration of the forthcoming release of Tao Lin's latest novel, 'Taipei,' we have been featuring a number of photo albums taken by the author during his recent trip to Taipei, Taiwan. In this selection, Tao shares some of the public art around Taipei… Full story

The Creators Project

Turning CCTV Footage into Art

We're constantly being spied on by closed-circuit television cameras, those electronic eyes peering down at us and monitoring everything we do. But as Orwellian as it all seems, this invasion of privacy and erosion of our civil liberties can serve as a source for art. Art like Ti… Full story

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #88

Hello. Every week or so I use this column as a space to discuss and review comics, fine art, illustration, and general nerd interest in the e-pages of VICE magazine. This is the second week in a row that my column has been about art shows. Next week we'll go back to reviews about… Full story